Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-20
TnE WORLD IS GRowIAG EErrER.

Ntntiiam hAo never oxisteos
TmE WORLD ~ Growing BETTER.
Among those Who take on themselves
to shape our opinions for us, IL has long
been matter Of dispute - TO whether
this 10 the best possible world 10 live in
or the worst. Ga the enc hand there IL
q band of typographical philosophers
Who are ready 10 avow with job that
the day Of q mans death is 70 be pre-
feEFed to the day Of his birth; 30, on
the other band, there are those who aver
that the pFesent IL not only the best
possible world TO live in, but the only
ore. With the extreme views OF both
thsss parties We join issue, believing
that the present state OF society is in
initely better and happier than pre-
yious states. and that a. the centuries
roll on our posleriiy will be the leEsiees
Of q happiness which We have not even
the faculty for eomprehsnding.
With certain isolated exceptions, the
history Of humanity thus far has been
a history Of progress. OF progress, not
only in the perfection OF the arts Of war
aud peace and in the invention Of the
thousand and one oosvenienees which
make life so tolerable today, bat Of
progress which has it's outcome in a
softenipg Of manners and in a nsre
ready recognition Of the rights and
claims Of others. /; was fashion once
to deplors the passing away Of the 90
called & cd old times, but when We
SEQ those good old times II fsoted 10
the pages Of Macaulay or Fielding.
We iGvoluntarily ttank orr stars
that our lives we're not cast in
them. In that England, ironically call
ed merry" 50 recently as the time OF
the Stuarts. thsre existed a ooaTseness
OF sentiment and a ealiousness TO suffer
ing which is hardly psraileled by the
usaees Of modern China. The horrors
aud barbarities Of thOss times are well
summed up in the words of the great
historian, who, comparing the manners
OF the two ages together, remarks that
more pity aud oommiseratiOn Is evoke d
10 these days by she contemplation Of
the suheriues Of an Gysrvorked OF than
the spectacle Of the bleeding trunk Of q
human being would excite in the time
Of tbs James's. Who shall say what our
humanity Is not capable Of, noting the
prodigy us strides it has made In senti-
ment in the course Of the past two hun
drvd years. Philanthropy, as the word
IL generally understood, Is purely viz
tue Of today; the great sxemplars Of II
are all Of this nineteenth SentaTy, and
10 may safely be said that never in the
history Of the world was the brother
hood and solidarity Of the rAce felt a,
It is now There IL, Of coarse, room for
H. prnvsment still. but when ws bear it
asserted that lhe present Is a hard,
erasplng. greedy time to live in, We
rOint 10 the generations gone BY,
and ask whether the advance We have
made uPou them Is not truly wonderful
Equity, federation and abstract right
were virtaes unknown TO oar fore
fathers. and have Only evolved 10 their
present state Of complcxity from begin
niues 90 rude. and from soil - bar
ren. that the wonder " they have ever
thrivrn Ia Ia al all Manners max ID
man." wrots William OF wyketam
eight hundred years ago, a saying in
sRoh striking contrast With the asages
Of bis axe that it has Invested the
character OF the architect monk Vith 4
degree OF grandeur which will uu'last
that Of his sdlasss themselves. Man,
nsrs' not as the word Is ordinarily IN
derstood - sieasfyinR a fFigii and coo
vvntionsl form Of etiquette, bot as used
a. a syu boil for those attentions, sauE-
tesiss aud solieiisdes for she wants Of
others. of which eur society Of today
affords sach countless examples.
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